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I have the pleasure of talking to Jivana Heyman founder of Accessible Yoga, an non-profit international education and advocacy organisation which offers Conferences, an Ambassador program, online Network, and Trainings. Details at www.accessibleyoga.org. Jivana is also co-owner of the Santa Barbara Yoga Center, and manager of the San Francisco Integral Yoga Institute. Jivana has specialised in teaching yoga to people with disabilities with an emphasis on sharing yoga philosophy. His passion is making Yoga accessible to everyone, and empowering people with the Yoga practices. We discuss all things yoga - making yoga more accessible, commercialization of yoga, his journey, his hopes and plans for the future and so much more. Make sure you listen as you too will come away feeling inspired.

Once again I speak to the Michael Neill an internationally renowned transformative coach and the best-selling author about his latest book Creating the Impossible. He has spent the past 25 years as a coach, adviser, friend, mentor, and creative spark plug to celebrities, CEOs, royalty, and people who want to get more out of themselves and their lives. He is the also the founder of Supercoach Academy, an international school that teaches people how to coach from the inside out. Michael’s books have been translated into 15 languages, and his public talks, retreats, and seminars have touched and transformed lives at the United Nations and on five continents around the world. His weekly call-in show, Supercoach, is in its 10th year on Hayhouse Radio. His TedX talk Why Aren’t We Awesomer? has been viewed by over 100,000 people and can be seen on his website at www.supercoach.com.

This month Donna is interviewing Alessandro Sigismondi.

Dana Falsetti is an international yoga teacher, writer, and advocate for living an authentic life that begins with self-love anI talk to the inspirational Yoga Teacher Dana Falsetti an advocate for women who want to find the confidence to live life more fully. Originally known for her strength in yoga, Dana now uses her platform to inspire critical thinking, self-awareness, and confidence in addition to her international yoga workshops. She has been recognised by millions across social media for her message: anybody can practice yoga and everybody has a right to be their true self no matter what body they are in. We talk about all yoga, her journey, the industry and how every body is capable of a yoga practice. She has been featured in print and online publications including but not limited to: Seventeen, People, Shape, Upworthy, Mantra, NY Mag, and many more. She was the 2017 Shorty Award winner (recognizing excellence in social media) in the Health and Wellness category, and has been mentioned on numerous lists of “most inspiring.” She aims to inspire others by being herself, constantly progressing towards her own truths.

Learn more about natural health, how to use nature to resolve health issues, and key things that Deborah considers are important for everyday wellbeing.

In my latest Reiki & Me pod I am talking to Ashley Wood about his personal Reiki journey and how it has changed things in his life for the better.

This is the second in my Reiki & Me podcast series - in this pod I am talking to my lovely partner, Kerrie, about her personal journey with Reiki and her battle with anxiety & stress. Read more on www.naturalhealthradio.co.uk

In this month's pod I am chatting to my good friend Kirsty about her personal journey over the last couple of years. Kirsty and I went to school together (quite a few years ago!) and a couple of years ago when she found herself dealing with a marriage breakdown, severe work stress and growing anxiety, she called me to see if I could help. Listen to find out what happened.

Just for today I will do my work honestly - a look at this Reiki principle as part of the Reiki Principles in Action series of podcasts for Natural Health Radio. www.naturalhealthradio.co.uk

Check out my interview with the Inspiration Author of Anna Guest-Jelley and founder and CEO of Curvy Yoga, an international training and inspiration portal for bigger-bodied yogis and their whole-hearted teachers. For more interviews come to www.naturalhealthradio.co.uk

Or perhaps the question should be, “Who’s stopping you?” As hard as it may be to accept, we are the ones who most hamper our own progress. Generally speaking it’s not intentional, and we frequently don’t know we’re doing it, but trust me, we are. I do it. You do it, and probably most everyone on the planet does it to some degree. Here’s a few ways we hamper our own progress: Procrastination – humming and hawing, but never making a decision Filling our time – “I don’t have time” is a common thing I hear from clients Numbing – eating, shopping, drinking, playing video games, getting lost in Facebook Land Worrying about what others think Comparing ourselves with others Listening to the critical voice in our head, and believing it I could fill the page with different ways we keep ourselves stuck in a limited situation. It’s okay, we’re human, it’s what we do. The good news is that we don;t have to keep doing what we’ve always done; particularly if we want different results. In this week’s Beyond Beliefs I offer three simple tools that will help you get out of your own way, and move in the direction of your dreams. This week’s musical inspiration comes from Kit Holmes, Michael Gott and Karen Drucker. Please support these independent artists if their music moves you.

Pam Maguire and students from South West College in Omagh have produced this short podcast as part of their work, discussing whether veganism is good for your health. Support their work by liking it!!

We have reached the last Reiki principle, “Just for today be kind to all living things”. By this point in our series of Reiki principles you are perhaps noticing the underlying concept – that we are all connected. The new world of quantum physics is opening up deeper understanding of energy and the fact that we are all intrinsically linked. This principle invites us to look at the concept of being connected – what we do to others we do to ourselves so be kind to all people – and that includes you! Do you consider yourself to be a kind person? What is kindness? According to Wikipedia, kindness is “a behaviour marked by ethical characteristics, a pleasant disposition, and concern for others.” Another definition is “the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate”. It is relatively easy to be kind to those whom we love and to those whom we respect. It is not so easy to be kind to those whom we have difficulty with! However, Usui doesn’t say “Be kind to some of the people some of the time” – he says “Be kind to all living things”, sometimes translated as “Be kind to all people”. I prefer the “all living things” translation because I feel that we should practice kindness and consideration towards animals and plants and not just other people. I feel we are all connected and therefore kindness should be the foundation upon which we build our lives – it costs nothing to be kind! So what about these people that perhaps push our buttons – those to whom we find it difficult to practice kindness? Some teachings say that what irritates us most about someone is often a mirror image of what we don’t like about ourselves. This one is a hard one to hear! For example – if you dislike someone because they are overly critical or judgemental does that mean that perhaps you criticise or judge people too? This is where the last principle comes into action – do your work honestly. So be honest with yourself – would that be the case? Sometimes our belief patterns and thinking can get in the way of us being kind. Fear, guilt, resentment and criticism stop us from being kind. These emotions and limiting belief patterns keep us stuck in a negative spiral where we feel like the victim. If you notice that you are in this loop then it is time to break free from it! No more being the victim – switch out the negatives and choose to be more positive. As I stated right back at the start of this series of articles, we always have a choice in how we think, feel and behave. It is easy to fall prey to victim mentality but that stops you from experiencing the powerful healing benefits of positivity and kindness. It is time to create a more positive, compassionate and tolerant world don’t you think? It all starts with you! In the UK we are at a disadvantage because we have been brought up to be reined in and restrained. We find it hard to be positive about ourselves or to express ourselves in a loving way. The British stiff upper lip has a lot to answer for! Religion has a part to play too. I was brought up in a Christian household and often heard the verse, “Love your neighbour as yourself”. I think, however, that the focus was always on the first part of that sentence and the emphasis was to always put others first. It appeared to be the “Christian thing to do” – to put others first and to love them more than we loved ourselves. That is not what it says though! It says “Love your neighbour as yourself” – in other words as you love yourself. So do you love yourself? Read more on Natural Health Radio www.naturalhealthradio.co.uk

My purpose in life is to assist others in achieving greater personal success. To do this, I believe people need to paying close attention to a combination of their physical, mental and spiritual well being. Over the years, I have studied numerous spiritual teachers and Mindset techniques, including NLP, Time Line Therapy & Hypnotherapy. I am also a huge advocate of Natural Health. In this session I take a detailed look at the process of “Personnel Transformations ”, with my guest Marnie Kay, Publisher, Author and Transformation Expert. Marnie shares with us her beliefs about the keys to personal transformation and recommends approaches for how people should best approach a personal transformation.

My purpose in life is to assist others in achieving greater personal success. To do this, I believe people need to paying close attention to a combination of their physical, mental and spiritual well being. Over the years, I have studied numerous spiritual teachers and Mindset techniques, including NLP, Time Line Therapy & Hypnotherapy. I am also a huge advocate of Natural Health. In this session I take a detailed look at the importance of “Excellent Convenient Nutrition”, which relates directly to physical well being, but also indirectly mental and spiritual well being.. I explore the "famine" of nutrition we currently have in society and I will share information on a 100% natural solution available to us to counteract this.

My purpose in life is to assist others in achieving greater personal success. To do this, I believe people need to paying close attention to a combination of their physical, mental and spiritual well being. Over the years, I have studied numerous spiritual teachers and Mindset techniques, including NLP, Time Line Therapy & Hypnotherapy. I am also a huge advocate of Natural Health. In this session I interview my guest Lisa Bevan, co-creator of the Decide Strive Thrive personal success system and owner of Mindset for Mum. Using Lisa’s expert knowledge in personal change, we take a detailed look at what beliefs are and how we individually go about creating them. The beliefs we hold impact every part of our lives. Lisa also explains that we can change our beliefs at any point in time. Firstly you need to recognise what your beliefs are, then utilise established techniques to change them.

My purpose in life is to assist others in achieving greater personal success. To do this, I believe people need to paying close attention to a combination of their physical, mental and spiritual well being. Over the years, I have studied numerous spiritual teachers and Mindset techniques, including NLP, Time Line Therapy & Hypnotherapy. I am also a huge advocate of Natural Health. In this session I take a detailed look at the importance of "Deciding Success". This could relate to any area of your life. I examine why it is so important to consciously decide what success you want and also the reasons why so many of us find it such a difficult thing to do. I'll guide you through a practical approach for doing this and how to reinforce your decision your decision with getting your unconscious mind in alignment.

Usui’s third precept is “Just for today be thankful”. Are you a thankful person? Are you full of gratitude or do you regularly complain about your lot? When Usui formulated this principle I believe he was asking us to do more than just say “thank you”. He was asking for us to develop an attitude of gratitude. It seems that in our society we always want to have more – a bigger house, a better car, more money, or more stuff. We say things like, “I need a new car” or “I need a new top”. We are getting our needs and our wants mixed up! We actually forget what we do have because we are constantly focusing on what we don’t have. I believe Usui was asking us to focus on the blessings we have in our life and to become grateful. So how do we do this and how to we differentiate our needs from our wants? Psychologist, Abraham Maslow, (1908-70) came up with a hierarchy of needs which I think is a useful illustration of this concept. Basing our needs on a triangle he came up with 5 groups of needs. Read more here http://naturalhealthradio.co.uk/?p=12728&preview=true

I had so much fun interviewing the multi-talented Angie Le Mar. She was the first female stand-up on the Black British comedy circuit. Thirty years later, she is recognised as a multi-award winning comedienne, TV and radio presenter/star, business woman, entrepreneur, speaker, director, producer and writer. The list is endless but most importantly inspirational. Recently, her writing skills have been put to the ultimate test: over the past three years, she has written about her 30+ years in show business. We talk about her new book Full Circle. A must read. We talk about show business, her dyslexia, spirituality and growing up in the UK. Angie is an inspirational, strong, hard-working and creative lady who is trailblazing the way for young women, particularly young Black women, to recognise their talents and use them in a way that benefits them and the wider community. She has come back full circle. Find out about what the next chapter of her life holds.

Last time we looked at living without anger – how have you found it? Have you managed to pause and reflect before reacting in the habitual way? This month I want to look at the second Reiki principle “Just for today, do not worry”. Whereas anger is an emotional response, worry is a thought process. Did you know that you have over 60,000 thoughts per day?! I’d love to know who actually got paid to count them! To understand worry, we need to understand how we think. Thoughts help us to make sense of the world around us. The brain receives information and manipulates it into a model in the mind which we then perceive as thoughts. These thoughts can be positive or negative in nature. Your thoughts carry energy vibrations – and before you think “Oh no here she goes again with all that mumbo-jumbo energy vibe thing”, science backs this up! Scientists can measure thoughts in the brain using specialised equipment and they have shown that thoughts do indeed have specific vibrations, and furthermore, there is a difference between positive and negative thoughts. Positive ones have higher vibrations as we would expect. The new world of Quantum Physics is highlighting that we are all connected energetically and that the universe as we know it is actually all energy and created by the observer: - A fundamental conclusion of the new physics also acknowledges that the observer creates the reality. As observers, we are personally involved with the creation of our own reality. Physicists are being forced to admit that the universe is a “mental” construction. Pioneering physicist Sir James Jeans wrote: “The stream of knowledge is heading toward a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter, we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter. (R. C. Henry, “The Mental Universe”; Nature 436:29, 2005) Read the rest on Natural Health Radio